hey pokemon why do you always have to do something like this every generation

bonus because it’s kinda nice:

[AGGRESSIVELY ATTEMPTS TO ENJOY SOMETHING WHILE IGNORING HALF OF THE FANDOM]

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“It’s ya boy Guzma” is probably the smoothest translation of ore-sama I’ve ever seen (makes eyes at Hetalia and TTGL) but it’s also unfortunately hilarious wwwww

It’s for ore-sama? AWESOME!

Yeah, ore-sama is a bitch to translate because standard English just doesn’t use pronouns like that but “it’s ya boy” is actually a great way of conveying both the conceited “you should know me” and inappropriately close connotations. I think it’s kinda rare to see direct ways of translating how rough/friendly speech is kinda the same thing in Japanese. I mean, we DO have an understanding that being overly familiar is rude in English but I feel like I rarely see that aspect of ore speech translated gracefully.

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https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/

Open letter to people who think scottish accents are funny

Since I’m currently ragin about the scots language being ridiculed on this godforsaken website how about a fun wee anecdote about silly scottish accents?

In primary school (elementary school for plebs fae other countries) I didn’t use much Scots dialect cos I was brought up watching english telly and my parents used mostly standard english vocabulary despite being Scottish themselves. But in the village I grew up in a lot of the other kids had strong ayrshire accents and used a lot of local dialect (i.e. they spoke Scots which is often politically and socially defined as a language of its own, but there are still regional dialects).

One of my strongest memories of primary school is of a girl in my class saying something along the lines of ‘miss, a ken the answer’, which translates to, ‘miss, I know the answer’. The teacher stopped the lesson and asked the girl, ‘what was that?’ and the girl repeated herself, 'a ken the answer, miss’.

The teacher then said, 'you don’t ken anything, you know the answer. Repeat after me: Miss, I know the answer.’

So the girl, mumbling and embarrassed by being singled out, repeated the sentence and the lesson continued.

This wasn’t an isolated event, this happened whenever a kid used Scots vocabulary. And it wasn’t just one teacher, it was all of them. Kids who weren’t even double figures old yet were shamed out of speaking their own language and using words unique to their local dialect.

Scots is a language. It has its own vocabulary and grammar and regional dialects like any other language. It has historically been associated with the working class, and the uneducated and therefore in the UK it is ridiculed and denigrated.

When you make up 'scottish twitter’ style posts, or caption 'scottish pokemon trainer’ screencaps with made up words that sound silly and sound close enough to what you think of as a 'scottish accent’, you’re ridiculing our language and our culture (pro tip: we never ever say 'fookin’)

It’s OK if you didn’t know, god knows our history and culture is ignored outside of our own damn country, but going forwards can you please stop turning us into a caricature and misrepresenting our language for shits and giggles?

I’m not saying you can’t enjoy scottish tweets and posts written in Scots, we have a great sense of humour, just don’t make your own unless you’re Scottish or I’ll come tae your houses and batter yous

Michael Dempster (the official Scots scriever) appeared on a linguistics podcast a little while ago talking about exactly this and I really think it’s worth a listen.

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/scots

I want to say I can’t believe some of the absolute bawbags in the notes who’ve replied to this post but honestly? I can. We’ve heard it all before. It’s not some ground breaking new idea that Scots is “slang” that you eventually “grow out of” and we need to just “get over it and have a laugh”. This shit messes with your head to the point where people lose the language they’ve grown up with. It’s a form of deliberate linguistic imperialism, the idea that your language (and therefore, your culture) are inferior and unintelligent compared to RP English which is the only REAL way to speak. Assimilate or face the social repercussions. You don’t need a law to ban a language when you can shame it out of someone and make them believe it was never even a language in the first place.

When people make those shitty Pokémon trainer or Merida posts about how angry and stupid they sound or talk about “Scottish twitter” being unintelligible without being aware of the history and the tensions surrounding Scots, they’re feeding into the culture that mocks Scottish people and genuinely cuts them off from their own culture. I was raised speaking thick Doric and it’s almost all completely gone now. You can barely tell I’m even Scottish at this point and I came from the arse end of the Highlands. This is a real phenomenon and you’d all know that if you listened to people for half a fucking second so maybe educate yourselves before jumping to join in and mock something you don’t actually understand.

Btw, op is right, we can tell you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about when you try to make your own funnee Scots tweetz. You’re not speaking Scots you just sound like an arsehole making fun of the way you THINK someone sounds and it almost always ends up being some dick van dyke cockney shit? It’s not a good look. Have some respect when you visit a community you’re not a part of or you won’t be invited back.

God I lost all excitement for the new pokemon games within a week, because everyone kept drawing comics of the scottish-looking girl trainer being rude and hard to understand. And its reeeeally obvious when you read the shit transcribed that they’ve never spoken to a Scots-speaker in their life. Like even taking some yanks laughing at foreigner’s funny way of speaking as just an innocent pasttime, its just painfully embarassing at best to read.

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